SANEsters,
The meeting date is Tuesday, 9 January 2007 (corrected), at Richard's (or if elsewhere, I will renotify).
Cripers, 2007 seems 'way in the future. Like there should be moving sidewalks and personal jetpaks and cars that automatically park themselves in a year so futuristic as 2007. Wars will be a thing of the past, as will hunger and actually "growing" food in "dirt" instead of making it in yummy tube and pill forms. "Don't forget your breakfast pill, dear, before you jet over to Eritrea to bring some peace to those savage heathens," I hear 2007-Mom say to her brood of Elvis clones. But golly, I digress.
By near-universal acclaim (over 90% of the known inhabited planets have reported in), we will be making colorful gew-gaws out of thin metal (tin cans being mostly aluminum any more), poking holes in them and making decorative edges and painting them and such. One purpose for these might be jewelry, or Valentine decorations/jewelry, or colorful metal things to hang on other things, and stuff. I may make a metal calendar or tiny tin drums or decorative eyeglass bangles -- I just don't know.
Betsey has some examples she got in Mexico from a burly street vendor known to the street urchins as "Turk," signed by a crafter named Karen O'Neil. They have scalloped edges, as if cut by them scallopy scissors (which, it seems to me, would dull toot-sweet if used on metal), and holes punched through 'em as if by an awl, and then some surface texture was applied with an awl or hammer or corkscrew or small farm implements, and then they were decorated with something like squirt-out-of-a-bottle paint and/or acrylic/enamel paint or glitter glue, then covered with a glossy medium or Modge-Podge. Whew! Strung on a wire that looks like it was born round, then hammered into flatitude, with attitude. All very festive and decorative, and only the wire part would cause nasty rashes. I was kidding about the "Turk" part above - he wasn't really burly.
What do I bring? (I hear you ask plaintively) Any of the following (don't rush out and buy stuff, I suspect between them of us what attends, we'll have plenty of everything):
Some sheet metal: it could be plain, or it could be decorated on one side, like a decorative tin box or soda can or food can, etc. (For easier cutting, something as thin as aluminum soda cans - but for more resilient uses, thicker aluminum, zinc, tin, brass, copper. Rich folk could bring titanium or platinum, and lord it over the rest of us.
Note: A flattened bottle-cap is already pre-cut and is often already decorated (for those wishing to create a decorative "Budweiser" bracelet) - hammer that sucka flat, punch a hole through it, and you're done.
Some wire, heavy enough to support whatever you have in mind. Light enough to wear, if'n somebody's gonna wear it.
Any metal-working tools you might have knocking about. Tin snips, wire cutters, punches/awls, any metal hole-punchey tools (such as a Dick Blick metal hole punch) would be handy. Fine metal files.
Some fine-grained sandpaper, for scraping off any varnish or coatings on the metal.
Alcohol (rubbing) optional.
Gluish stuff would be optional. Hot glue gun? Two-part epoxy? Duco cement? Chewing gum & baling wire? Acetyline torches and welding rods? Solder wasn't envisioned for this particular project.
Band-aids and Neosporin.
Paint and decorative goo (preferably something that adheres to metal, tho I'm not perzackly sure what that is, since most metal wants to be primed first. It's actually dying to be primed. Listen to a little bit of metal some day, and that's what you'll here - "prime me."). Fast-drying would be a boon.
If the paint isn't in a bottle that helps dispense it (squeeze bottle with nozzle, say), you'll need a brush or three. Serious painters should bring a palette. Artists from the '40s should bring a smock and beret, and perhaps a friend with bongo drums.
Gloss medium, or matte medium. (Not small or extra-large, just medium. That "joke" always cracks me up.)
In the likely possibility that your project won't be dry by the time you leave the meeting, consider bringing a box or other contrivance to rest the gooey mess on whilst you drive home. Then leave it in the car to freeze, or leak through the upholstery, then sit on the next time you get in the car. Quelle surprise!
See you then/there.
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In doing research for this project I uncovered a few others - take a look and see if you like any of these for future meetings (tho the HGTV site is scarey, in a craft-intense way):
design transfer onto metal: http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/crafting/article/0,1789,HGTV_3352_1938899,00.html
soldered photo frames: http://www.volcanoarts.biz/muse/photoframes/index.htm
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